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Custom sort legend issue
I am trying to reorder the legend and the order of stacked bars for this chart.
I added a new column with numbers to create custom sort order, then did sort by column "Custom Sort (Job related stress)". This method has worked for me before but with this data I keep getting this error message:
Is it something with the data? As far as I know there are no repeated values for the custom sort column vs job related stress column. I have "Less than once a week", "Once a week", "A few times a week", and "Almost every day". Is it picking up "Less than once a week" and "once a week" as the duplicated values? I have tried doing custom sort and removing "Once a week" but still got the same error message.
The job related stress column should be OK - it's what's in your "Custom Sort (Job related stress)" column that would be causing issues.
Here's how i would debug - create a simple table and put Job related stress (don't summarize) and distinct count of Custom Sort (Job related stress) in the table and sort by the count - this should help you find which specific values for Job related stress are causing issues. You can then fix the sort column to make all the values unique. Note - blank values will count towards "duplicate values" for the purposes of sorting.
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The job related stress column should be OK - it's what's in your "Custom Sort (Job related stress)" column that would be causing issues.
Here's how i would debug - create a simple table and put Job related stress (don't summarize) and distinct count of Custom Sort (Job related stress) in the table and sort by the count - this should help you find which specific values for Job related stress are causing issues. You can then fix the sort column to make all the values unique. Note - blank values will count towards "duplicate values" for the purposes of sorting.